Changes Coming to the Castle Farm Cookbook!

Now that the holidays are over, we're excited to start spending more time cooking and trying new meals.  Cal and I may have ate a few too many cookies (and chocolate and cake), so we need to trim a few tenths of an ounce. 

It's time to start making some healthier foods, but don't worry loyal readers! We'll never lose our love of cooking with cheese and alcohol or baking cupcakes.  So, stay tuned in the coming weeks for healthy recipes featuring nutritonal info (ooo!) and difficulty ratings (ahhh!). Until then,

pig, out

Cookie Extravaganza! Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are one of our all-time favorites. They are crispy on the edges, soft in the middle and filled with yummy gooeyness. This recipe is adapted from The All New Good Housekeeping Cookbook.

Cookie Extravaganza! Continues

We managed to make a lot of cookies yesterday, but we've got a lot more dough to turn into cookies.  This much!

So we'll be updating earlier posts that we ended with "we'll be back soon" and maybe adding a few more.  The snow has finished falling, but the cookies are not done cooking!

Cookie Extravaganza! Surprise Cookies!

The name of these cookies are Surprise Cookies.  This is not because you can't know what they are, it's because if you didn't make them and you just took one and bit it you would be surprised - because there is a secret marshmallow inside!  When we made a bunch of cookies 2 years ago, these were everyone's favorites.  We are also excited that we actually get to bake cookies again, since the last few batches we've made have to refrigerate for a while.  This is another favorite from Martha.  So here it goes.

Cookie Extravaganza! Chocolate-Peppermint Cookies

It's 10 PM and the snow is finally starting to taper off. We've hit a solid 18" and possibly more like 19", but we didn't really want to bundle up again to find out for sure. But thats a full 2 farm animals of snow! Impressive showing. Although the snow may be slowing down, the cookies are still coming along! Up next is Chocolate-Peppermint Cookies. This is a recipe we saw on Martha's homepage and knew we had to make. So here it is.

Cookie Extravaganza! Lemon-Pistachio Wreaths

As of 7:30 pm, we have 17.5" of snow, that's roughly 2 farms animals high!

We've had some dinner, cleaned up some, and we're ready to go again with some more cookies.  After all, it wouldn't be an extravaganza if we quit after just 6 kinds of cookies would it?  It would be more like a casual party.  So now we are making Lemon Pistachio Wreaths.

This recipe is from Martha Stewart and we have never made it before.  At this point we also havent decided if we are actually going to make them look like wreaths either, circles might be good enough for us.  Here's the recipe.

Cookie Extravaganza! Greek Honey-Walnut Balls

For our next trick, we have Greek Honey Walnut Balls. I am not really sure if these are technically a cookie, but close enough. As loyal readers know, we really love Greek food. So if we are making a cookie extravaganza, naturally one of them has to be Greek. This recipe is based off of one we found at Christmas-Cookies.com, but we made a slight adaptation. We had a cinnamon stick, actually one from Greece, that we were excited to use in the syrup, but we couldn't break it in half!

And we didn't have whole cloves either, so we just used ground. Since these are really yummy, we can't even imagine the yumminess that they would have been if we had used whole seasonings. Here it is: